Leaktivist

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Someone who advocates for a political cause by leaking secret information to the public; a person who practices leaktivism. neologism

    "According to the leaktivist collective Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoSecrets) roughly 70 gigabytes of posts, private messages, profiles and plaintext passwords were obtained in the hack."

Example

More examples

"According to the leaktivist collective Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoSecrets) roughly 70 gigabytes of posts, private messages, profiles and plaintext passwords were obtained in the hack."

Etymology

Blend of leak + activist.

More for "leaktivist"

SynonymsSentencesPronunciationTranslate

Next best steps

Find stronger synonymsSee usage examplesCheck pronunciationBrowse writing guides

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.